AMERICA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 137, 28 August 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

AMERICA.

INVASION OP THE NORTH. New York, June 13. Affairs are going on more decisively in favor of peace. Meetings have been held in the Northern States, and resolutions passed condemning the Government for prosecuting the war, urging peace at any price, and demanding that the wishes of the people be respected. The accounts of the last month’s proceedings, as reported by the General Government, are not relied on by the Northeners themselves. Authentic reports say that General Lee’s army, numbering 100,000 men, supported by an immense cavalry force under General Stuart is on the move towards Winchester and Harper’s Ferry. Great alarm prevails in Washington. Preliminary arrangements for the enforcement of the Conscription Act had led to a breach of the

pGUCtJ, tillU ll’icii tO HUliuSi. Xu IS thOugllt Government will not be able to carry out the measure. The voluntary enlistment of the black population is now the grand idea, as Lincoln and his-principal advisers despair of much further white aid for the. conquest of the Southerners. Meanwhile Lincoln says that, as the nation elected him President, he will act as such. Vicksburg has been attacked by the Federals, under Gen. Grant, who was victorious in a series of attacks, but was finally repulsed. Gen. Pemberton declared he could hold out until reinforced by Johnson, who, it was expected would attack in the rear, and cut him up. Fort Hudson was invested by the Federal army

and fleet. After several engagements the Northerners were repulsed. General Banks lost an arm, and General Sherman died of his wounds. Admiral Wilkes has been superseded on the representation of the British Government. The arrest and condemnation of Mr. Valdigham, for a speech made against the war, produced a tremendou sensation 'in the North. Application for a writ of habeas corpus was refused, and the refusal excited great indignation. The Democratic party have nominated Vallandigham for the Governorship of Ohio. At a monster meeting, at which 25,000 people were present, the military despotism of the North, was severely censured. The people are crying out for the freedom of discussion.

The French Emperor had re-opened negotiations with England on the subject of mediation between the Federals and Confederates. Should England decline, he will have recourse to Russia and Spain, as it is now thought utterly impossible for the seceding States to return to the Union. Lord Palmerston is in favor of submitting the American quarrel to the arbitration of the King of the Belgians. Provided the contending American factions agree to this arrangement a suspension of hostilities, pending the decision and award of Leopold will be imposed, The new element of negro soldiers employed by the Federals increases the fury of the Confederates, who give no quarter to blacks, and thus add greatly to the horrors of the war. General Banks reports the conduct of the black troops in the attack on Fort Hudson as being most heroic. When ordered to the front to storm the Confederates’ position, they rushed in a body over the parapets and siege guns, and reached the interior of the fort. A hand to hand conflict ensued, unprecedented for ferocity. No quarter was given. Out of 800 negroes of the storming party, 600 were killed; the remaining 200 escaped by jumping headlong over the walls of the fort. The Federal loss in the late Vicksburg fight is given at 40,000. Admiral Porter, on the Yazoo river, had done considerable harm to the Confederates, and had destroyed a large amount of public and private property. The report of the evacuation of Fredericksburg by General Lee, and its occupation by Hooker, is wholly unfounded. The editors of the New York journals have passed a resolution asserting their rights to criticise acts of administration, and deny the rights of the military to suppress papers published fur from the seat of war.

The steamer Norwegian, sister ship to the ill-fated Anglo-Saxon, has been wrecked off St. Paul’s, in the St. Lawrence, steaming in a fog. No lives were lost. CANADA. The Parliamentary elections are creating a good deal of excitement. The Government candidates have mostly been defeated. Troops for New Zealand.— The Ist battalion of the 12th Regiment being considerably below its proper strength, a detachment, of 90 men of all ranks, under the cpmmand of Captain Vereker and one subaltern, embarked at Gravesend, on board the City of Sydney, for New Zealand. — Some News, June 2G. New Zealanders in England.— On the 13th June a presentation of somewhat unusual character took place at Marlborough-house, the Prince and Princess of Wales having been in attendance to receive the 13 New Zealanders who are now in England. During the interview, which lasted an hour, his royal highness asked them how they liked England, and by what they had been most impressed. To this the elder chief Wharepapa, one of Hongi’s warriors, eagerly replied that what had most surprised them as yet had been the railways. They had heard in their distant land of a mode of transit swift as a ball from a rifle, but had not becu able to realise the fact until they vsited the great glass house at Sydenham, where the carved figures of men and woman had also excited their admiration and astonshment. The prince conversed with them in the most friendly manner through their interpreter, and the New Zealanders emphatically assured his royal highness of the great desire of the New Zealand tribes to maintain the most friendly relations with this country. His Royal highness cordially reciprocated this wish. Afterwards the New Zealand party proceeded to the residence of the Duke of Newcastle, where they took luncheon with his grace.— lbid. A social gathering of emigrants, previous to their departure for the Albertland settlement, in the Province of Auckland, took place on the 27th May, in Mr. Spurgeon’s Tabernacle, Newington ; Mr. Ridgway, agent for the Provincial Government, in the chair. The New Zealanders, at present on a visit to this country, were present on the platform. The chairman having introduced the aborigines to the meeting, addressed a few words of encouragement to the emigrants, at the same time advocating a system of emigration to New Zealand by means of assisted passages. Mr. Jenkins, interpreter to the New Zealand Government, said that during a 21 years’ residence in New Zealand, many natives had expressed a wish to visit England. It was mentioned to Sir George Grey, and he approved of the project, believing that the result of a visit of 10 or 12 natives to England would be beneficial both to the natives and their country. They intended travelling

through the kingdom in order to obtain such information respecting the greatness and power of England as would tend to benefit themselves on their return. Several of the aborigines then addressed the meeting, thanking the English nation for the benefits conferred upon New Zealand. The Bev. Mr. Booker, the chaplain of one of the vessels going out with emigrants, nexlspoke upon the advantages to be derived from emigration, and after addresses from other speakers upon the same subject, the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman.— lbid.

Another batch of emigrants, 150 in number, left Nottingham, on the same day for the same destination. They marched in procession to the railway station, preceded by bauds of music and accompanied by their friends. They are an industrious, well-conducted class, and by no means the poorest of the population.— lbid. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills,—Children’s Complaints. —While the weekly return of mortality shows a decrease of deaths from smallpox, it displays an alarming increase in fatal cases of measles and scarlatina. Such unfortunate issues would not result were mothers and nurses to rub Holloway’s Ointment upon the glands of the neck and upper part of the chest when symptoms of scarlet fever and measles first appear or even after the eruption has come out. The Ointment penetrating through the skin into the glands, always stimulates them to throw a full eruption, which is the safety valve of both diseases. Holloway’s Pills also should be given to lessen the fever, to reduce the irritation of the throat, and to quiet the cough, which are most distressing to all suffering from those complaints. — (Advt.J